Low Blood Sugar Symptoms

Low blood sugar is also known as Hypoglycemia.  Hypoglycemia is caused by low levels of blood sugar in the blood stream.  Hypoglycemia can occur if a child doesn’t get enough to eat or goes too long between meals.  Hypoglycemia is not a disease by itself, but its presence is an indication of a problematic health condition.  Hypoglycemia is connected with nutritional imbalances in most of the cases and treated mostly by the proper diet.  Another name for sugar is glucose and is what we discuss in the next paragraph.

Here are some of the symptoms of low blood sugar:

• Trembling
• Clamming Skin
• Palpitations -A noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat
• Anxiety
• Sweating
• Hunger
• Irritability

Glucose is most often found in carbohydrate-rich food, such as rice, potatoes, bread, cereal, sweets and fruit.  Glucose can also be stored as fat which is used for energy at times of severe food deprivation.  Glucose is used in the body as a source of energy.  Glucose is actually our body’s main supply of energy, made by absorbing the sweet and starchy foods in carbohydrates.  Glucose is absorbed into your bloodstream and converted into usable energy units that are absorbed by your cells.

Insulin can have an immediate and dramatic impact on lowering blood sugar so it’s important to test prior to injections to prevent low and high blood sugars.  Insulin medications can bring down the glucose levels, a situation that can lead to hypoglycemia when unchecked. This is why they have to monitor their sugar level to prevent it from falling well below normal.  Insulin helps to convert glucose into the usable energy units that your cells use for energy.

FYI: insulin resistance is part of the hypoglycemia problem in that your body has to produce more and more insulin over time to deal with the sugars in your diet.